But Baker thinks the CES buzz will be around two smaller companies with limited function set-top boxes.
Wells was born with a rare condition that left her without several fingers on each hand and with limited function in her lower legs.
On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.
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Tubbs Jones, 58, died at 6:12 p.m. after the aneurysm burst, leaving her with limited brain function, spokeswoman Eileen Sheil said.
Sharp and Samsung have already released 3D phones, but their devices have been more limited in function than the Optimus 3D and focused more narrowly on the Asian market.
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Needless to say, adults with low levels literacy are less able to help their children and increase household income due to their limited ability to function efficiently within a market economy.
The printer, since Gutenberg, had been limited to the function of re-creation: if you wanted to print a specific image or letter, you had to have a physical character or mark corresponding to that image or letter.
Similarly, employees (sometimes limited by corporate title or function) may be permitted to charge personal expenses (limited to certain types of charges or dollar amounts) on a corporate credit card with the similar expectation that the charges will be highlighted on the next statement and promptly reimbursed.
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The internet in Belarus - as in other similarly authoritarian states - does function to a limited extent as a media outlet for independent and opposition views.
Setting aside the larger question of whether imposing national education standards is a legitimate function of a limited federal government, let's turn to the specific question of whether or not national standards will lead to education reforms.
We believe the stock outs are a function of strong sell through rather than limited sell in by BlackBerry.
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But, strangely, because software is really a form of idea rather than mechanical function, the patented software is not strictly limited to the original hardware implementation it was conceived for.
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The lack of a notification center, combined with an interface that periodically overwhelms function with form (such as the highly stylized but limited email view), only compounds problems if it's genuinely vital that you spot and deal with an emergency in minutes.
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But this too, Mr Midler writes, is more form than function, since the tests are by their very nature more limited than the ways to circumvent them.
In addition, there is only limited standardization in what these menus and buttons look like and how they function, contributing to confusion and frustration on the part of end-users.
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But then you have to consider the limitations of the Chrome OS - it's great if your life is in the "Cloud" and you want an always-online machine whose main function is email, web surfing and social media, but limited if you want to use other applications.
Do not use Eye-Fi cards inside aircraft, or where the use of radio transmissions are limited or forbidden, or set the Eye-Fi card's transmission function to OFF.
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It is these attributes that allow the company to function as a small market cap company but still do the clinical development traditionally limited to the domain of big pharma.
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Google's Gmail currently lacks a calendar function, and some believe the firm would like to add one - albeit perhaps a limited version that could serve home users well without meeting the requirements of corporate users, thus avoiding a head-on challenge to Microsoft's business model.
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